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Calcitonin measurement in fine-needle aspirate washout fluid by electrochemiluminescence immunoassay for thyroid tumors

PURPOSE: For the differential diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) on thyroid nodules, ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology is a useful and safe procedure, but its diagnostic accuracy is not high enough. As an ancillary method to accurately diagnose MTC, the calcitonin in fine...

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Autores principales: Kihara, Minoru, Hirokawa, Mitsuyoshi, Kudo, Takumi, Hayashi, Toshitetsu, Yamamoto, Masatoshi, Masuoka, Hiroo, Higashiyama, Takuya, Fukushima, Mitsuhiro, Ito, Yasuhiro, Miya, Akihiro, Miyauchi, Akira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6208047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30450128
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13044-018-0059-4